Trayless cafeterias lead diners to take less salad and relatively more dessert

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Trayless cafeterias lead diners to take less salad and relatively more dessert.

OBJECTIVE Many colleges are removing trays from their dining facilities in hope of reducing waste. How does not having a tray impact food choice? DESIGN A field study was conducted in a university cafeteria (n 417) on two evenings with identical menus, one with tray service and one without. SETTING A dining hall of a large north-eastern university, USA. SUBJECTS Undergraduate students. ...

When More Alternatives Lead to Less Choice

One crucial decision firms or government agencies must make is the selection of the alternatives, e.g., the characteristics and/or the number of products, to offer to consumers or citizens. The selection of the set of alternatives to offer should not only take into account the potential preferences of the consumers and firms, but also the evaluation costs of the economic agents. This may lead t...

Lead extraction is preferred for lead revisions and system upgrades: when less is more.

Cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) use has increased exponentially during the past decade,1–3 with 4.5 million active devices and 1 million new leads implanted annually.4,5 With expanded CIED use and indications for device therapy, observed complications have increased in parallel.6–14 The occurrence of more frequent device system revisions for complications,6–8 system upgrades...

Patients who take their symptoms less seriously are more likely to have colorectal cancer

BACKGROUND People vary in how they respond to symptoms. The purpose of this study was to assess whether serious disease is more likely to be present in patients who report that they take any symptoms less seriously than other people do, and to assess the reliability of a question which can be used to identify the extent to which patients take any symptom seriously. To do this we assessed whethe...